Altmetrics should not be used for ranking of anaesthesia journals
Fassoulaki A.
Vassi A.
Chantziara V.
Elsevier Ltd.
Department of Anaesthesia, Aretaieio University Hospital, University of Athens
Καρδάσης, Αντώνης
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Kardasis, Antonios
(EN)
Traditional bibliometric indicators, such as Journal Impact Factor™, used for journal ranking have been criticised.1, 2 Altmetric™ provide a real-time score of attention when a publication appears online using social media sources (Altmetric LLP, WeWork-Kings Place, 7th Floor, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG) last revision lists 15 of them),3 each contributing to a different degree to the final Altmetric attention score. We compared the ranking of five top anaesthesia journals by journal impact factor with ranking by Altmetric.
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Άρθρο σε επιστημονικό περιοδικό
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Scientific journal article
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Δείκτες και στατιστικές για έρευνα, ανάπτυξη, καινοτομία
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Αναισθησιολογία και Ιατρική πόνου
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Πηγές πληροφόρησης
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Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
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Scientific literature
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Journal impact factor
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Information processing
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Anesthesiology
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Indicators and statistics for research, development, innovation
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This is open archive. The define version is publeshed by Elsevier Ltd at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bja.2018.05.048: Fassoulaki A, Vassi A, Kardasis A, Chantziara V. Altmetrics should not be used for ranking of anaesthesia journals. Br J Anaesth. 2018 Aug;121(2):514-516
